Tour Bus Operator Stashes Extra Passengers In Luggage Compartment

June 12, 2011 2:24 PM

Bus passengers near luggage storage area. (File photo Getty Images)

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GLADWIN (WWJ) - UPDATE TO STORY

When a tour bus operator found he had more passengers than seats, he put six people in the luggage compartment with mattresses and pillows.

Now the Michigan company has been ordered to cease commercial bus operations after the discovery during a trip to Ohio.

The order against Haines Tours of Gladwin was issued Friday by the U.S. Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

An Ohio State Patrol officer found six people May 27 in the luggage compartment of a bus traveling from Michigan to Clyde, Ohio. Mattresses and pillows were in the luggage area.

It is reported that the driver told the officer there was no room on the bus for more passengers.

Tour Bus Operator Stashes Extra Passengers In Luggage Compartment

counterintuitive

These beguiled passengers thought they were on the Queen Mary. Their tickets said “Steerage Accommodations”.
Kylie StJohn

Did the ones who sat below get a discount? I say put all the kids down there.
Wm

As a Christian former tour bus operator, I say that if God put Jonah in the belly of a whale, then we should be able to put passengers in the belly of a bus.
Cal

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Alvar the Fool

Wait how much did those “seats” cost. Will the airlines let me do that?
Alvar the Fool

Rob…re-read the article….and if this is still your comment, please tell me you don’t own any weapons….
Paul

I needed a good laugh…And this story did it! The economy class seats are getting worse.
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Early Ardmore

This is luxury compared to riding in the landing gear on an airplane. Blankets, pillows and fellow baggage. Man that’s first class.

——— http://911essentials.com
davelucas

I hope the passengers got a discount.
Ron

It sounds more comfortable than the seats – I wouldn’t mind it at all.
dessertgirl

First class buses in Mexico always carry an extra driver who sleeps in a compartment next to the luggage. Every 8 hours or so the bus pulls over and the drivers switch. I can’t help thinking that the air quality can’t be that good and the relief driver may take the wheel with a buzz on.

somedude

How is the air quality any worse than the driver position? The engine and exhaust is at the rear. Maybe sitting and idling, but moving the air should be fine LOL!

fred

If the passengers don’t mind, who cares? We have been dumbed down that we can’t make a move without the government telling us if we can or not. We are over regulated. No one forced these people. Let them decide.
cecil

The flip side of this tabloid saga is that the passengers got in the luggage area on their own accord and so they is responsibles.
smokeybandit

What’s more disturbing here…that the bus company made people “sit” in the luggage area…or that people actually agreed to it?
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Su Yu

if the luggage compartment is rockin’,….don’t come a knockin’!
KCview

Will you be travelling coach, or sleeping compartment sir?
Bill Clinton

The lower deck bachelor pad equipped with a mirror ball and vibrating bed…

They must be members of the 2 foot club.
Kip Noxzema

If that driver told me I had to cram into that compartment, I would’ve told him where he could cram it.

Yeah, pull the license.
stu

When ya gotta gamble, ya gotta gamble..
ToothAche

I took AMTRAK from Tucson Az to Eugene, Or. It was 14 hours late coming into LA, the toilets overflowed, the was no food or fresh water available. Heading north to San Luis Obispo was another 9 hours, we got off for a 12 minute stop over just to have an undercover drug bust at the train station, add another 4 hours for a train search. Got into Eugene 19 hours late from LA. 1400 hundred miles, 33 hours late. Overflow toilets, no fresh water, no diner, snack bar sold out.

I’ll take the luggage compartment.
mac

This is how my parents met